Yugoslavia formed in 1918 as a kingdom inclusive of ethnic Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. Geographically, it is located in the Balkan Peninsula which includes Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Macedonia, portions of Greece and Turkey, Croatia, and Slovenia. Yugoslavia became a Communist state ruled by Josip Broz Tito in 1945. The struggle for control began upon Tito’s death in 1980.

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